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INKED! Throwback 'Song Reader' is required reading
Aside from marching bands, movie scores and classical charts, sheet music is an unknown quantity to most popular and modern music fans, an anachronism of a bygone era. It seems like somewhere around the late 1950s and early ’60s, the era of Sun...
Tags: Soundgarden (music group), YouTube, Smokey Robinson, Music Industry, Sammy Cahn
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Imagine: John Lennon tribute at 9
By the numbers alone, this year's version of the long-running John Lennon Tribute Concert has a few serendipitous connections that the legendary rocker might appreciate. It's the ninth annual edition, a digit that Lennon immortalized in the...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Central Park, Entertainment, Concerts
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In All of it's Glory
Our Town CorrespondentShuffling feet and scuffed shoes. Suitcases and purses. Tourists with accents. Snack stands. Hats. Glasses. iPhones. Tickets. Travelers. I was one of them. The transit station was crowded last Saturday as a close friend and I prepared to make our way...Tags: Times Square, Central Park
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Album review: Ty Segall, 'Twins'
3 stars (out of 4) Indie-rock has grown more introspective, bearded and brooding in recent years, which makes the thunderous music of Ty Segall seem all the more necessary. The San Francisco-based singer and multi-instrumentalist brings a crusader’...
Tags: Music, Entertainment
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Taking note of music books
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, as Elvis Costello and others have sneered, then what does that make reading about music? Well, fun, for starters. Although Bowker Market Research reports that music books have steadily comprised...
Tags: Neil Young, Francois Truffaut, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Carlos Santana
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Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest'
3.5 stars (out of 4) It’s official. On his latest album, “Tempest” (Columbia), Bob Dylan has become Tommy Lee Jones in “No Country for Old Men.” Like Jones in the Coen brothers’ 2007 film adaptation of Cormac...
Tags: Poetry, Muddy Waters, Ethan Coen, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan
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Dan Deacon explores 'America'
Dan Deacon’s new album is titled “America” (Domino). Nothing like aiming high: It’s a song cycle on what it means to be a citizen of a troubled democracy, and you can dance to it. The classically trained Deacon works with an...
Tags: Dan Deacon, North Coast Music Festival, Dance, Entertainment Events, Music Industry
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Hurray for Central Michigan University medical school
Starting in the fall of 2013, 60 lucky students out of a pool of about 3,000 will be chosen to be the first class at Central Michigan University's new medical school -- and Northern Michigan will be the better for it. One of the goals of the new...Tags: Internists, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Health and Medical Professionals, Colleges and Universities
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Album review: Redd Kross, 'Researching the Blues'
3 stars (out of 4) Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald were gradeschoolers when they debuted as an opening act for hardcore punk pioneers Black Flag in the ‘70s. Their band, Redd Kross, brought a tongue-in-cheek fascination with kitsch culture and...
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Seeing is believing
Leonard PittsChyanna Richards saw Jesus in her bathroom. A few days ago, Richards, who lives near Houston, told a local TV news station she saw the image of Christ in a splotch of green mold on the wall above her tub. "People say, 'Your house is blessed,'?"...Tags: Nazareth, Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida), Genesis (music group), The Miami Herald
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Weekend Preview: Top five San Diego events v 9
San Diego lifestyle trivia: What do Playboy Playmates, the Beatles, food trucks, and high school Prom have in common? Well, typically absolutely nothing; but this weekend, they have everything to do with your entertainment lineup. My top San Diego...Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Ringo Starr, San Diego Padres, KSWB
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Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford: Their greatest hits
The songwriting world lost two titans Monday when Nick Ashford and Jerry Leiber died within hours of each other. Ashford, 70, cowrote a string of hits with his wife, Valerie Simpson, that helped define soul, R&B and funk in the ‘60s, ‘70s and...Tags: Diana Ross, Gospel (genre), The Fifth Dimension (music group), Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee
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